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Costa Rica. Nicaragua Costa Ricans exiled. Victory: Filibuster War (1855–1857) Costa Rica Nicaragua Kingdom of Mosquitia Guatemala Honduras El Salvador United States: Filibusters: Victory. William Walker's army is defeated and he is arrested by the American Navy; Barrios' War of Reunification (1885) El Salvador Mexico Costa Rica Nicaragua ...
About 2,000 people are believed to have died during the war, making it the bloodiest event in 20th-century Costa Rican history. After the war, Figueres toppled the army and ruled the country for 18 months as head of a provisional government junta , which oversaw the election of a Constitutional Assembly in December.
1921 War of Coto (against Costa Rica) 1960 — 1996 Central American crisis. 1989 — 1990 United States invasion of Panama. December 20, 1989 Operation Acid Gambit; December 23, 1989 Operation Nifty Package
Sparrow and the Hawk: Costa Rica and the United States during the Rise of José Figueres (University of Alabama Press, 1997). Mount, Graeme S. "Costa Rica and the Cold War, 1948–1990." Canadian Journal of History 50.2 (2015): 290–316. Olien, Michael D. "Black and part-Black populations in colonial Costa Rica: Ethnohistorical resources and ...
Costa Rica violated its obligation under general international law by failing to carry out an environmental impact assessment concerning the construction of Route 1856. In June 2016, Costa Rica made an estimation of the damage to be paid of US$6,700,000. It accepted to make a second evaluation of the damages if Nicaragua requested it. [29]
The Coto War (Spanish: Guerra de Coto) was a conflict between Panama and Costa Rica fought between 21 February and 5 March 1921. The casus belli occurred when a Costa Rican expeditionary force led by Colonel Héctor Zúñiga Mora occupied the town of Pueblo Nuevo de Coto, a hamlet on the banks of the Coto River.
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Costa Rica: Joaquín de Oreamuno overthrows Rafael Francisco Osejo and declares the joining of Costa Rica to the First Mexican Empire, but fails because of his defeat in the Battle of Ochomogo. The caudillo Antonio López de Santa Anna was involved in several coups in early post-independence Mexico.